By Debra Chong
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 21 — Teoh Beng Hock, the 30-year-old political aide to a Selangor executive councillor who died and was buried in July, will be exhumed this morning for another autopsy in Hospital Sungai Buloh tomorrow.
The new team’s role is to confirm if he really did die because he jumped off a high building unaided or was pushed out a window after being beaten up to the point of passing out.
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 21 — When Hafidz Baharom, a freelance writer, entered a public university in 2002, he was sent with his classmates to a government camp for a week.
It was the usual jungle trekking and other team-building activities, but interspersed with these were lectures. Some of the content was disturbing, he said.
“We were taught a song with lyrics like ‘the land that you walk upon is owned by others. Lecturers told us the Malays were forced to depend on the Chinese for support after 1998 because some Malays had betrayed their own race,” he recalled.
PETALING JAYA, Nov 21 — A man wanted by police and believed to be the leader of the Berong Gang, Herrie Berong, 48, was killed by police at 8pm yesterday during a shootout with police.
Earlier, he was seen in a Proton Waja, believed to be stolen on May 17 in Desa Jaya, in front of a bank in Sri Damansara. Police followed him till Subang Bestari and ordered him to stop.
PETALING JAYA, Nov 20 – MCA deputy president Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek says that he supports fresh party elections but not the November 28 extraordinary general meeting (EGM) called by his rival Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai for the same purpose.
Dr Chua said that Liow should call off the EGM scheduled for next Saturday and discuss the possibility of holding fresh elections in March.
“I am one of those who supported fresh elections after the October 10 EGM but I do not support the November 28 EGM as the resolutions do not fulfil the requirement of the MCA constitution,” said Dr Chua.
By Shazwan Mustafa Kamal
PETALING JAYA, Nov 20 - Axed presidential council member Datuk Wee Ka Siong (picture) said today that there should not be any reason why fresh party elections should have to wait till March 2010 as “everything is ready for party elections.”
“I am glad to hear that Chua Soi Lek is agreeable to party elections. However I disagree with his proposal to have it in March next year.
“We have the central delegates’ list. Everything is ready. Why wait?” said Wee, who is MCA National Youth Chief.
